Typically, these brokerage houses make billions and happily pay millions in fines.
Somewhere between '09 when the crimes began and '17 when the lawsuits started, all or most firms ended their fees for trades. I wonder if this had anything to do with that move? $7/trade was pretty standard in the industry. Which makes it ironic that Wall St. fights a tiny ($.10-$.25/trade) fee that would be able to fund almost every pressing issue in the nation.
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